thews wrote:It's sad that most Mormons have nary a clue regarding the facts about the Book of Abraham. While it's hard to blame them as the pro-LDS sites intentionally deceive them, this isn't true for the apologists, as they know the truth... they have to know the truth in order to attempt to spin it. Guys like Wade, Will, Wonka, ldsfaqs, etc., know the truth but have seemingly found a way to balance the scales of cognitive dissonance by selectively ignoring the truth. How anyone can know the Book of Abraham was an incorrectly translated pagan document and continue to believe in the truth claims of Joseph Smith is something I can't understand.
Given that I'm a convert to the Church from multiple religions and no religion, and have left the Church and been anti-mormon and anti-religion, having your same ignorant views and no "need" to rejoin the Church, I think I'm a better judge of what actually is the truth than you.
Your's is a perversion and omission of the truth, not the actual truth. We have no cognitive dissonance whatsoever. We simply see why and how your "truth" is nothing more than a little truth used to tell great lies, and the significant omission of the full facts and truth, thus you create strawmen that you then attack.
It's really as simple as that. We aren't liars, we aren't ignorant. We simply know MORE than you, and thus make an actual honest and truthful judgment of the issues. We know and can see EXACTLY "why" and "how" you make your judgments as an anti-mormon. The simple fact is, is we know more, and thus we know you are the one lying. It's not us who lie buddy. We are in this religion only and because of the Truth in all things and ways. You can't accuse all of us of being blind, of having family ties, etc. We are a religion full of balanced and well educated and capable people. Your actions are classic bully syndrome. Me, I eat bully's.....